kchusker_chris

FULL TIME ST COACH!!!!

Not when you consider what it would have cost us to get McElwain, Tressle, BB or any of the other names thrown around. I bet only a handful of coaches hired this season will be below that mark. I think we did about as good as we could have done outside of someone like Moglia. And we managed to get a CEO with a lot of years of experience for that too. The difference between McElwain and Riley is $2.3. That means we can pay 900k for our OC, 900k for our DC, and hire 30 recruiting staff members at $60k/year and not spend a single extra penny than we would have keeping the extact same staff/pay structure as Bo but adding McElwain.

Only a % of the "resources" have been spent thus far. If he ends up doing it right, they were be plenty more invested. What I don't get w/ this dislike for Riley is that you all would have been jumping up and down with McElwain. Riley starts at $2.7million/year. McElwain would have come in as just as big of a wild card closer to $5million when you take his huge buyout and distribute it over the 5 years. You know what an extra $2.3 million per year gets you? One HELL of a coaching staff to go with Riley. Recruiting coordinators, private jets, scouts, etc. It gets you a boatload more than it would have gotten you dumping everything on the HC. And those are the differences that will get Nebraska to the top.

This is the closest thing that we could have gotten to my theory of saving money on the HC, and paying big time for the assistants. There's a bunch of money left over to bring in top notch recruiters and coordinators. Gonna be fun to watch this thing play out over the next week.

if we want to win the B1G, doing it with B1G coaching is not the path to take. This hire will get us farther than both Tressel or Bielema would have. Riley will bring something to the table that the B1G doesn't see every week, kind of like Urban has. It's going to be fun, and he'll be successful.

Just an FYI Husker fans....you tried to take Houston Nutt from Arkansas in the early 2000's and didn't get him...now you want to take a coach who just left the Big 10 for two reasons, the school he was successful with wouldn't put out the money to keep assistants and 2) Bielema said the best way to the NC game is to play and be successful in the SEC....why would he want to move back to the Big 10 ? He wouldn't....and if it became a contest of pocketbooks, well, you guys cannot compete as we have 7 billionaires who are officially boosters of the Razorback program. We have just finished this past season opening a 50 million dollar new football operations facility unrivaled in the SEC....so if you do get him, its because the money in Arkansas allowed it, if not good luck at outbidding Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys Owner), 3 Wal Mart heirs who live in Bentonville, AR, Jack Stephens, (mogul and orignal owner of 25% of Wal Mart stock), James Reynolds (Reynolds Aluminum, worth double digit billions and finally chicken mogul John W. Tyson, Jr obviously of Tyson Chicken, the largest marketer of chicken in the world. Better have a bladder full of urine if you are going to get into a pissing contest with the Super 7 listed above. We have Warren Buffet. let the pissing contest begin. one supposes that you do not realize that Wal Mart Corporation is worth more than Exxon Corporation...compared to Wal Mart, Warren Buffet is a lightweight....and besides, I'm talking ACTUAL boosters of the program, not just some guy who was born in the states of Nebraska and Arkansas....doesn't matter now, however, you guys got YOUR MAN in Mike Riley...what a powerful hire...I'm guessing ol' Prozac Mike' made a huge splash in the local headlines..It must have taken Warren Buffet's billions to get that guy....NU was a football power in the 90's...matter of fact I'd say NU had one of the greatest football teams of all time in 1995, I believe it was....anyway, I respect your program, but if you can't win the Big 10, you'll never beat an SEC team for the NC....in 2010, we had a 14-0 lead on LSU at Baton Rouge as a play-in game for the NC against Alabama...so it hasn't been that long since we were good....Bielema was left a train wreck and has full intent, after the vast improvement his second year, in winning the SEC West next year....good luck with Riley (as you will need it)...and FYI, in the all-time series between Arkansas v Nebraska, we own you....but alas, Warren Buffet didn't have his fortune back in those days. at least you have the waltons to fall back on during seasons like this.

he's 23, he's not a kid. not many of these are kids. and he knows exactly what he's saying - he's likely 90% trolling. i think mitchel likes the drama, enjoys seeing his tweets plastered around ESPN websites.

understandable - but how else do you response to it. it's truely a facepalm moment. a dbag move all around. no other way to really look at it.

yup, makes me feel tough.

But if the national media isn't bashing us we wont' be able to declare ESPN sucks and everyone is out to get us....

Well you went WAY out on a limb with that prognostication. Better than Beck/Paps......no fricken way. haha - yeah doesn't take much does it. i just think everyone needs to calm down and wait for the staff to come together. it's those 9 that matter most anywya

disagree - open you're mouth like that and you're free game IMO. have a rough game, off limits - openly bash the new coach 60 minutes after the announcement...have at em' folks! next tweet will be "avoid Nebraska recruits" - they guys trying to burn the place down, hope he doesn't see the field again in red.

This guy is going to prove all the doubters wrong - great hire IMO. Wait until you see the staff - I am 100% confident it will be heads and shoulders above Beck/JP

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here's a pony for u'r new thread....

no one is winning an orange bowl at Kansas in the next 30 years. kansas football got lucky for a single year. 5 wins is the ceiling for that program, with maybe a bowl appearance once or twice a decade. saban couldn't win an orange bowl there.

there was a ton of sarcasm in my post

the best way to the NC game WAS to be successful in the SEC. in today's playoff world - the best way to get there is to walk through a cake schedule in the B1G west going undefeated at Nebraska. even the biggest SEC homer would take a look at our schedule the next few years, even the next 5 and see that there is 1, maybe 2 games that have to be won in order to make the playoffs. the rest of the schedule is BYU, Indiana, and Rutgers. beat Ohio State. beat Wisconsin. make playoffs. sounds a lot better than A&M, LSU, Alabama, Florida, Auburn, Ole Miss, Miss St. and whatever other teams were on that gauntlet of a schedule Arkansas has to navigate every year.

must have been Frost he was having lunch with because Nebraska is the only place with unrealistic expectations.

In the last couple of years we've taken Urban from Florida and one of their biggest up-and-coming coaches in Franklin from Vanderbilt. The B1G's issue isn't coaching, there's some solid coaches in this league. There's also a few duds.

I wonder what he could do with a top-20 recruiting class instead of a top-50 class. I'd be perfectly fine if he only won 3 conference championships over that period - but that's just me.

Very different than the 12.8 found here....(page 24) - which is if the University terminates him. I can see the confusion. http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/public/ab-Bret-Bielema-Contract.PDF

but I'm sure it's nothing, the meeting probably had plenty of these...

Suh blaming administration as well? This isn't isolated to current players, or past players. It's toxic, and SE/Pearlman bears plenty of the blame. It's concerning. And Bo obviously stirred the pot last night, which to me was unnecessary. Yes, i have a an agenda that involves seeing Pelini get fired...oh wait. What agenda could I possibly have? Tell me since my opinions are so "telling". Fill me in please.

...yup, everything sounds positive to me... Steve @StepDaddyFinnin · 7m7 minutes ago If there's not a ring on our finger after next year then y'all better riot until we have new admin. That's all I'm saying. Steve @StepDaddyFinnin · 18m18 minutes ago If you guys only knew how bad our admin. messed up. If you only knew our coach like we did. Mauro Bondi ‏@mbondi37[/size] 13m13 minutes ago Bo talks to us like we're his own kids and EIchorst talks to us like we're the media. Coach Bo is man and a father figure! Thanks coach #FOE duecefour @awill_i_ams · There's a lot more than meets the eye people Sam Foltz @samfoltz27 @RealMikeWelch bc we now know the story behind it all.. We're in peace Bo was right all along.